YSK: how to painlessly migrate you and us from reddit

albatross@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world – 218 points –

Signing up

Pick an interface. Do you prefer to browse Reddit with:

Flip a coin, pick an instance. Are you:

Building momentuum

  • Jumpstart your subscription list using https://redditmigration.com
  • Try commenting or posting. Just try it! Many people who stopped engaging on reddit find the community more rewarding here.
  • Try sticking with Lemmy / Kbin for a few days. Until your fingers learn to get their fix a new way, and you get your subscription list built up a bit.

What next?

Many people are happy at this point… but what to do if you want to help the switch to fediverse but you’re still jonesing for reddit after a few days? A few ideas….

  • Its OK! Reddit simply has more volume and a bigger stack of communities as of Jun 30, 2023. Its /probably/ (?) not going to disappear overnight. Its not an either/or, you can use lemmy / kbin more and more over time.
  • Start your internet browsing time on lemmy / kbin first. If you’re “still hungry”, supplement with reddit.
  • Consider instituting a “read only reddit” policy: no posts, comments, or upvotes. Its MUCH easier to stop adding to Reddit than it is to quit cold turkey. If you don’t like reddit’s behavior, this is a good way to collectively switch momentum toward the fediverse without making big personal sacrifices.
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Might be a stupid question, but I iust signed up for lemmy.world today and wanted to add some communities from the migration list here. The equivalent of r/anarchychess is listed as https://sopuli.xyz/c/anarchychess and on my first visit to that site I couldn't really figure out how to subscribe... in this case sopuli would be the hosting instance if I understand. Do I need a sopuli account to subscribe and just add that account to my lemmy app? Or did I just not find the right option?

The best way to link communities is like this:

!anarchychess@sopuli.xyz

You should be able to click that :)

You can also just do a search for it and it should pop up.

I don't think you can link communities like that ? Or maybe it's only supported in some clients / instances. My understanding is that you need to link them by using the usual markdown link syntax (or the link button below the editor) and input /c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz as the link target.

Like this:

[anarchychess](/c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz)

Which will render like this:

anarchychess

Note however that I've had some problems with this previously. I suspect that the first time someone tries to access a remote community from whatever instance you're on, your instance runs some heavy API queries which are prone to failure if either instance is under heavy load.

Your instance is pretty outdated. Most have updated to 0.18, while you're still on 0.17.3

In 0.18 you can just type !community@instance and it will automatically link it and keep you on your own instance

I figured it out I think! The problem was that the link basically opened in a browser, and the browser has no idea what my Lemmy.world login is. My Lemmy App (Connect) has a search bar on the left side where I had to enter the community name and choose the right instance. IE there were 3 different Anarchychess communities with the same name, but the Sopuli instance was the "right" one. Going to the page trough the search bar allowed me to subscribe like I wanted.

Yeah there's lots of competing communities with similar or the same name. Usually picking the most active one will be the best bet. One will win and become the default just give it a little time

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